50 New Immigration Judges on Duty, and 370 More Coming

LifeZette ^ | 11/15/2017 | by Brendan Kirby

[gubamyster]

Additional staff will help the government start to reduce the backlog of court cases, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions

The United States is on the verge of reversing an immigration court backlog that has been building for years, Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified Tuesday.

Immigration hawks long have pointed to the backlog, now about 600,000 cases, as a factor in undermining enforcement. Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee that the backlog has barely grown during the past two to three months as a result of 50 additional immigration judges who have started working since President Donald Trump took office.

Sessions said the Department of Justice has shortened the time for hiring new judges and hopes to bring an additional 360 to 370 on board.

“I’m told by the additional work we’re doing, by January, we will not be adding to the backlog but hopefully reducing it,” he testified. “That would be a real change in the trends that we were heading on.”

Andrew “Art” Arthur, a former immigration judge who now is director of law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, said a combination of increased staffing and fewer border crossings has the department on the right track.

“We have turned a corner,” he told LifeZette. “We may see a slight increase, but we are going to level off and start to see a decline.”

[central_va]

Feel good story of the day.

[House Atreides]

Yep, now to move on getting an additional couple of thousand more on board - recruited from non-Leftists.

[oldasrocks]

Why do they get to go to a judge in the first place? If they are here illegally they should be just shipped out.

[Mastador1]

Feel good story of the day.

IF all these hirees are Conservative in mindset, and IF they have the American people's interest at heart and not bleeding hearts that feel sorry for the poor little illegals, Then it would be the feel good story of the day.

[SgtHooper]

How could this possibly be of any benefit to this country.

[gubamyster]

Because they will be able to deport people faster?

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/15/2017. Thanks gubamyster.

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